FakeFactory's Cinematic Mod

Has anybody experienced missing effects with EP2 when using this version of the mod? I've had several different game effects just not show up.

The main ones are:

1) The energy beam joining the super-portal to the citadel site
Only the two sites are shown, no beam between them. This was one of the coolest effects in the game, too.

2) All fire effects such as burning enemies and fire-based traps
The latter is particularly annoying because you can get burned by this invisible fire!

3) All Vortigaunt energy effects
The scripts such as starting generators and killing enemies still happen, but no pretty effects.

I'm using the latest version (6.4). Any ideas why this stuff is missing?